The British Empire has long since folded. But the Commonwealth of Nations remains a global collective of like-minded countries.
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‘End-time’ leaders are muscling their way into the top tiers of government and business.
Behind the difference looms the specter of Russia, which each side sees in increasingly opposing terms.
The effects of AI’s growth on global security could be difficult to predict.
Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long, complicated and divisive.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey, and Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, are two leaders who have consolidated power using a similar playbook.
How many other world leaders can claim to have become a verb?
The regime knows it must adapt to the modern world – but its ideology remains the same.
The Olympics claim not to be political, but in the 1960s a counter movement organized by left-leaning countries put politics front and centre.
The increasing dependence of Indonesia on China has negative economic and political repercussions.
Dissatisfaction with democracy is rising around the world. But there are a few ‘islands of contentment’.
The BRICS bloc can’t be written off. At the same time it shouldn’t be romanticised, given its internal challenges.
Merkel’s popularity at home and on the global stage continues to grow as she runs for a fourth term as chancellor.
It’s the end of the world (order) as we know it.
A historian takes us beyond the noise in Washington and examines how US and Russian power and interests compare.
They may not be the Illuminati but there is a different kind of conspiracy at play at the secretive annual Bilderberg meeting of global elites.
It should come as no surprise that comedians would feel threatened by the attack on Charlie Hebdo: the freedom to offend is the source of their livelihood, and many who have offended have been threatened…
Earlier this year, British travel writer and resident of Denmark, Michael Booth, riled Guardian readers with a provocative article claiming to dispel the myth of Scandinavia as the perfect place to live…
Political commentators are beginning to tire of saying that things can’t get any worse for French Socialist president François Hollande and his government. And yet, catastrophe after catastrophe, things…
The US military’s assassination of Osama bin Laden in North Pakistan is an important landmark in the “war on terror”. As the leader of al Qaeda he was the primary target of the military campaign to defeat…
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